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On derivative consequence argument [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 The article gives critical remarks to the derivative consequence argument proposed by Bogdan Faul. The first critical remark concerns the ontological status of the laws of nature, the second remark deals with the term «physicalism». It is demonstrated
D. N. Razeev
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The Consequence of the Consequence Argument
KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy, 2020 Abstract The aim of my paper is to compare three alternative formal reconstructions of van Inwagen's famous argument for incompatibilism. In the first part of my paper, I examine van Inwagen's own reconstruction within a propositional modal logic.
Marco Hausmann
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The Counterfactual Structure of the Consequence Argument [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2019 This paper revisits a well-known rebuttal of Peter van Inwagen’s consequence argument. This CS-rebuttal, as I shall call it, focuses on the counterfactual structure of alternative possibilities. It shows that the ability to do otherwise is such that if the agent had exercised it, the distant past and/or the laws of nature would have been different.
Stefan Rummens
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Determinism, Laws of Nature and the Consequence Argument
Manuscrito, 2016 Scott Sehon (2011) argues that the conception of determinism employed in the Consequence Argument is implausible because it rules out the logical possibility of the laws of nature being violated. Sehon says, for instance, that determinism is incompatible
Pedro Merlussi
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‘Can’ and the Consequence Argument [PDF]
Ratio, 2013 AbstractThe consequence argument is a powerful incompatibilist argument for the conclusion that, if determinism is true, what one does is what one must do. A major point of controversy between classical compatibilists and incompatibilists has been over the use of ‘can’ in the consequence argument. Classical compatibilists, holding that abilities to act
Alex Grzankowski
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What the Consequence Argument Is an Argument For
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2019 The consequence argument is among the most influential arguments for the conclusion that free will and determinism are incompatible. Recently, however, it has become increasingly clear that the argument fails to establish that particular incompatibilist conclusion.
Justin A. Capes
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Does the consequence argument beg the question? [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2012 The Consequence Argument has elicited various responses, ranging from acceptance as obviously right to rejection as obviously problematic in one way or another. Here we wish to focus on one specific response, according to which the Consequence Argument begs the question. This is a serious accusation that has not yet been adequately rebutted, and we aim
John Martin Fischer, Garrett Pendergraft
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Reply to Huemer on the Consequence Argument [PDF]
The Philosophical Review, 2002 In a recent paper, Michael Huemer (2000) provides a new interpretation for 'N', the operator that occurs in Peter van Inwagen's Consequence Argument,1 and argues that, given that interpretation, the Consequence Argument is sound. I have no quarrel with Huemer's claim that the Consequence Argument is valid.
H. Beebee
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The Core of the Consequence Argument
Dialectica, 2003 We suggest that the classical version of the consequence argument contending that freedom and determinism are incompatible subtly misstates the core intuition, which is that if a true conditional and a true antecedent are jointly beyond our control, then so is the consequent.
A. Blum
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A strengthening of the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism [PDF]
Analysis, 2017 J. Gustafsson
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